• Location

  Kokomo, IN

Steinberger was brought in on the early stages of planning for this project, collaborating with the Silver Creek Engineering, Inc. to develop the safest methods to keep out of production areas, as much as possible, therefore minimizing our risks.
Prior to starting demolition, a custom-made large, reinforced fire-rated tarp system was designed and installed beneath the roof’s structural secondary steel to prevent any debris from falling sixty-five feet to the production floor. The floor beneath the immediate work area was barricaded, to keep personnel out from below. As replacement moved along the building, the safety system would move ahead of construction areas.
The primary reason this project was accomplished without interruption to Haynes’s production schedule is mainly because Steinberger integrated modular construction practices. Each bay of the new roof structure was built prefab from the ground, outside of the building area as individual, independent assemblies. A separate crew would use a similar system to remove large portions of the roof at a time. The demolition crew would get an entire bay removed in the first half of the day. Then the crane would lift the new prefabbed purlin assembly up to the roof as one unit. This made it only necessary to make connections at the mainframes, working from an existing sheeted area.
The siding installation was also very dangerous working adjacent to the furnaces. Specialty safety systems, wearables, and cooling gear were required to complete certain areas.
At the end of the day, this extremely complicated and dangerous project was completed safely and Haynes now has what appears to be a new building.